I've been licensed for 47 years and I have been fortunate never to have experienced the kind of, and magnitude of, noise on the lower HF bands (1.8, 3.5, 7, 14) which just recently appeared on my radio. I've operated from my home here in south Florida for seven years without any unusual noise problems until now. Nothing seems to have changed: no new appliances, no new construction in the neighborhood.

The noise appears on my band scope as a series of spikes, equally spaced in the spectrum, which drift slowly from lower to higher end of the band scope. (I have a photo but can't seem to attach it to this post.) The noise is high level: +10/+20 on the S-meter.

I am not aware of any new BPL operations...Most, if not all of the major ones, have shut down due to lack of profit. If it recently popped up, it's likely a bad insulator or transformer...is it only in one direction? Does it change when it rains or I'd be interested in the photo.....also any recording of the audio you can make...my email is my call at earthlink dot net.

ChrisWB5ITT(fought TVI/RFI for 14 years at Gulf States Util/Entergy, TX)

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